Colombia marks National Day of
Peace
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| Flag reads "we are the generation of peace" |
On Colombia`s National Day of Peace, still more has to be
done to achieve overall tranquility for a country which still struggles with
the hangover resulting from five decades of Civil War.
By James Blears
In his 2017 visit to Colombia, at Simon Boliver Park in the
Capital Bogota, His Holiness Pope Francisco urged every faction to swim instead
of flounder by setting aside agendas. He said: "Jesus passes through
Colombia and calls on its inhabitants to cast out into the deep, to take risks
for peace and reconciliation."
During this week the National Liberation Army, the ELN
scrapped a month long truce with the Colombian Government, taking into account
the Coronavirus. Both sides immediately accused the other of not working hard
enough to reach and secure a final peace pact, yet both are ready to resume
cudgels. After the 2016, Peace Agreement with the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia the FARC, the ELN is the last major guerrilla group that`s
still waging an armed conflict. It`s been dragging on since the 1960`s.
In this same week, eleven military officials have been fired
and an Army General has been retired, following magazine reports
of cyber spying on national and international journalists, politicians,
members of the Government and even their own colleagues. Minister of
Defense Carlos Holmes Trujillo confirms the investigation is ongoing. The
Country and its ordinary people, are trying with all their might to return
to the path of full democracy with peace for all. But the effort by some
groups, who remain determined to cling to the coarse security blanket of the
blundering past, must be significantly more selfless with a greater
and significantly more courageous goal. Today of all days
is a time for those few, those entrenched minority to think peace, NOT
self. to unclench a corroding iron fist, discard the sword, pick up
a peace pen and then finally after more than half a lifetime... shake hands.
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